![]() By using this image, the poem explores the way humans make decisions like this and then wonder what might have happened if they had chosen differently. Broader meaning of this image: The choice between two options in life. The central image of the poem: Image of a person standing at a fork in path and deciding to take one path rather than another. metaphors, similes, enjambment, alliteration, personification, etc.): Explained in the poem above. First published in Frosts 1916 collection, Mountain Interval, this poem explores choice and. Type of poem: Closed form: poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern. The Road Not Taken is one of Robert Frosts masterpieces. When we compare the words “day” and “way” we can see how the speaker is suggesting that the clearest route (or “way” ahead) is to go forward by one of the two paths, while going “back” (to take another path) would be unlikely, as implied by the rhyme with “black” or darkness. The poet depicts him facing two roads in a forest, indecisive about the road. (The word “day” also suggests light and brightness or clarity). The unknown speaker in the poem becomes a representation of Edward Thomas himself. For example: Stanza 3 : lay, day & way These words are connected because, on that particular day, the speaker found himself in a place where two ways (paths) lay before him. ![]() Frost has placed certain rhyming words in relationships with each other, so each of the rhyming groups is somehow connected. Characteristics of Robert Frost's poetry: The rhyming words are simple and short (most of them are only one syllable long). Rhymes in stanza 1: All these rhyming words contain long vowel sounds, which are drawn out and have the effect of drawing out the reader's attention, making the action of the poem appear longer. Rhyming scheme: Stanza 1 : Lines 1, 3 & 4: wood, stood, could Lines 2 & 5: both, undergrowth Stanza 2 : Lines 1, 3 & 4: fair, wear, there Lines 2 & 5: claim, same Stanza 3 : Lines 1, 3 & 4: lay, day, way Lines 2 & 5: black, back Stanza 4 : Lines 1, 3 & 4: sigh, I, by Lines 2 & 5: hence, difference abaab cdccd efeef ghggh. Form and structure of the poem (rhyme, rhythm, line length, stanza length, etc.): The poem is devidid into 4 stanzas of 5 lines each. Enjambment: The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break/punctuated pause. Anaphora: The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs Antithesis: A contrast or opposition between two things. Occupies the speaker's thoughts much more than the path that he did choose. The path that was not chosen, ironically, becomes the more attractive one, and 20īy using this title the poet draws the reader's attention to the poem's focus on theĬhoice that was not made, rather than the choice that was made. 15 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence : Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
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